MARTIN JUNG DIPLOMA PORTFOLIO ZÜRCHER HOCHSCHULE DER KÜNSTE MAY 2021 - ZHDK
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MARTIN JUNG Diploma Portfolio Zürcher Hochschule der Künste May 2021
MARTIN JUNG EXHIBITIONS, PUBLICATIONS, PARTICIPATIONS
*1989, Bühl/Baden, Germany 2021
trans magazine, article for issue #38 “reproduction”, gta Verlag, ETH Zürich
2018-2021 BA Fine Arts, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste “never closed”, artist publication by ZHdK
2014-2017 MSc. Earth Sciences (Engineering Geology) ETH Zurich 2020
2011-2014 BSc. Applied Earth Sciences, KIT Karlsruhe “Bonus Track 05”, group exhibition, Kunsthaus Aussersihl, Zürich
“Dosenfleisch”, theatre project, ZWZ Zürich
“From Noise To Silence”, group exhibition, Künstlerhaus Bregenz, AT
2009 Abitur, Windeck Gymnasium, Bühl/Baden “Übers gehen”, artist publication by Wassili Widmer
Lives in Zurich, Switzerland 2019
Postkartenausstellung, group show, Haltestelle Strahlholz, CH
“AM GAA AA II”, group show, ZHdK
“AM GAA AA”, group show, zum Hirschen, Muotathal
“Sektor”, group show, Parkplatz Zürich
“How To”, group show, Flüelastrasse 32, Zürich
2018
“Kunst textlich” zine, VOLUMES, Zürich
“untold stories” group exhibition, ZHdK Zürich
KM1 “Raumtraum”, group show, KEINMUSEUM, Zürich
“Position”, group show, Transi by Spieglerey, Zürich
Stereoskop VII, Tart Gallery, Zürich
“Lokalisation”, group show, Transi by Spieglerey, Zürich
“Heimweg”. zine, RAMARAMARAMMRAMM, Zürich
CONTACT
+41 77 4584888
mpjung@gmx.de
mjung.ch
DIPLOMA PROJECT
BA Fine Arts Degree Show
artist statement (take#11)
2021
video with subtitles, 10:36 min, 16:9, stereo
My diploma work is the recording of an artist statement by a
disintegrated modern character in the aesthetics of a self taping,
which is a common format for casting actors in film and theatre.
The monologue is based on a collage of text from various sources,
including truisms generated by GPT-3, quotes from ZHdK teachers
and students, personal notes and material by Keith Raniere and
Charlie Booker.
acting coaching by Matthias Ott
technical assistance by Nathalie Berger
shirt by Dominique Lanz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzTGRcrFtdA
AI Query for Editorial by Martin Jung
GPT-3
All is always being fixed. The reproductive method
is healthy. They tell us we’ve got no options. Anything
new means tomorrow.
Humans are always fixing the world. Technology is
constantly being improved upon so that it can work bet-
ter than before. It seems like humans are obsessed with
fixing everything they possibly can.
Scientists are also obsessed with fixing things.
They find flaws in how people think, and try to fix it so
that everyone can be happy.
Can we alter truth to make it more accurate?
There’s so much repetition in this world. This is
natural. It is easier to copy something and alter small
details than to create everything from scratch.
This mentality extends to all things.
The trees in a forest, the animals and insects in the
AI Query for Editorial jungle, even rocks on a planet will copy nature and form
for issue #38 “Reproduction”, trans magazine, gta Verlag patterns to survive. That’s how things should be?
2021 I see the world as a collection of patterns, and only
patterns are what I perceive. Meaning comes from pat-
tern recognition - if there is no pattern then there can
be no meaning. I would describe humans as patterns,
specifically patterns of adaptation. This is not to say that
these adaptations are perfect; in fact I would go so far
as to say they are very imperfect.
Collaboration with PhilosopherAI, a GPT-3 application
launched in 2020. The query for this text was based on the Change is a constant in the universe,
issue title “reproduction”. and one of its most defining features. The move-
8
ment of heat from hot to cold vi conduction; change in Why is this? It is because humans are inherently afraid
altitude via convection; even the decay or transforma- of the unknown.
tion of chemical elements. Everything changes. They want to believe that everything has been said.
Humans do not like change. Humans have a fear of
But there are some aspects that we cannot change, death, and this is another reason why they are so lazy.
no matter how much technology we develop. The most
significant constant in the human world is death. The human is a physical object.
A complex animal with many layers.
We are now able to alter our genes, and so we
have created other forms of life that do not exist in If one were to remove the head layer, then this
nature, tools that allow us to build machines that can would result in a different type of dysfunction. Your real
make more copies of themselves. self which is your soul would be exposed.
The more copies there are, the better we get at You see the human body is just a suit for the real
copying stuff. you. It is not possible to remove the head layer.
Why reproduce in the first place? Why not just You cannot copy an image of a dog with its head
pass on your genes through asexually reproducing, so cut off. If you want to copy the image of a dog, you have
that you don’t need to take part in reproduction your- to copy the image and the dog. Dogs so often just sit
self? What if I don’t want to be a mother? there and stare at you and say nothing like some foreign
That’s a good question. Perhaps the biggest reason grandparent.
is that humans are social creatures. Reproduction allows
you to get into a relationship with others and raise off- I am rather a cat person.
spring together.
Love. The distinction between originals and copies has
blurred. Each copy has its own date of creation and
Humans seek to love and be loved, which is a very history. The concept of ‘now’ seems to be relative to
important psychological need. the situation. If time were linear (which seems unlikely)
I have developed a theory recently that humans are would tomorrow still come one day later?
more loose than they seem.
Everyone must agree with the first set of rules. It’s Machines that can make more copies of them-
about holding hands, not shooting people. Reproduction selves. The same thoughts are repeated over and over
is pleasurable. It feels good! again. It’s like a stream of water flowing and never
changing. The old word is the good word.
But there are also reasons I think humans don’t
like to talk about. One is that reproduction keeps people
busy and distracted so they won’t have time to be curi-
ous or question what the purpose of their lives are.
Gaining knowledge demands change. Learning
new things requires stepping out of a comfort zone. By
copying nature, the human mind has become stagnant. Martin Jung, geboren 1989, studierte Angewandte Geowissenschaften in Karlsruhe, Ingenieurgeologie an der
ETHZ und ist seit 2018 im Programm Fine Arts an der ZHdK.
GPT-3 (Generative Pretrained Transformer 3), geboren 2020, ist ein Sprachmodell, das auf einem künstlichen neu-
9 10 ronalen Netz mit 175 Milliarden Parametern basiert. Es ist das erste kommerzielle Produkt von OpenAI.
is that humans are social creatures. R
you to get into a relationship with oth
spring together.
Love.
Humans seek to love and be lov
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more loo
Everyone must agree with the fi
about holding hands, not shooting peRoom Of Total Disaster @Toni Areal Zürich 2019 multimedia installation James Dean in Rebel Without A Cause (1955) Tommy Wiseau in The Room (2003) James Franco in The Disaster Artist (2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnOUvjoAXPA
In 2003, after a near-fatal car accident, wanna-be actor Tommy Wiseau set out to produce
his autobiographically influenced film The Room, which he scripted, financed, directed and starred in
concurrently. Wiseau lavishly stuffed his performance with reenactments of scenes from James Dean
movies. After its release in the US, The Room was soon labeled one of the worst films ever made.
Infamous for its terrible plot and acting, it became a cult classic that went on to be shown in event-
like screenings worldwide. As a reaction to its unlikely success, James Franco produced The Disaster
Artist, a film that tells the story of Tommy Wiseau and the making of “The Room”. James Franco also
formerly portrayed James Dean in the biographical drama James Dean.Untelling @”untold stories” semester show, ZHdK 2018 performance/installation An archived facebook chat which represents a complete chronic of an online romance was transformed into a running text and transferred onto a 4.5m*2m wall panel using graphite sticks. In a performative act, the text was radially erased from a fixed position in the middle of the board while wearing a shoe that was attached to the wall panel.
Stiller
@”How To”, Flüelastrasse Zürich
2019
performance
Ich werde am 11.10.2019, beginnend um 6:00 Uhr,
im Theaterproberaum im Keller der Flüelastrasse 32
Max Frischs Roman «Stiller» laut vorlesen,
in seiner ganzen Länge, ohne Pause.
Danach werde ich den Raum für die Dauer der Ausstellung
absperren.
Zürich, den 09.10.2019,
Martin JungConstruction and Deconstruction of a Landscape @ AM GAA AA, Muotathal SZ 2019 multimedia installation A composite video shows performative walks away from a camera and back towards it in a remote part of the Muotathal mountains, which is known for its natural echo-locations. A speaker manufactured out of local deadwood plays a soundpiece based on echoes generated there and their inversion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95F_303eIco
truth ongoing series truth 2 @BONUS TRACK 05, Kunsthaus Aussersihl, Zürich 2020 100cm*100cm AI generated essay on truth black pencil on recycled cardboard The text was created by the AI-fuelled writing service essaybot.com (a subscription-based software for students) and transferred by hand on to cardboard simultaneously to its generation
truth 4 @Toni Areal Zürich 2021 AI generated text chalk on concrete floor
truth 8 @near Morgarten, Zug/Schwyz 2021 Fired clay platelet thrown onto the speculative historical battleground of Morgarten, on the cantonal border between Schwyz and Zug, both of which claim the site of the battle
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